The Army Corps of Engineers cut off water releases Tuesday from North Dakota's Garrison Dam a historic move to ease flooding along the Missouri River in Bismarck. The city ordered the evacuation of homes along the river where access roads were under water in the middle of a spring blizzard.

Cook County Commissioner Mike Quigley has bested a field of 11 other Democrats in a special primary election to fill the seat of former U.S. Rep. Rahm Emanuel, who left Congress to be President Barack Obama's chief of staff.

The euro is the Miss Congeniality of world currencies right now. Icelanders are clamoring to adopt it. Danes and Swedes are having second thoughts about snubbing it in the past. The Poles and Hungarians are accelerating plans to make the euro their money. Even in Britain, which has held to the pound with bulldog-like ferocity, there's talk of possibly joining the euro.

Zsolt Kerecsen, a 34-year-old software developer with three kids and a mortgage, is no high roller. But like thousands of other middle-class Hungarians he gambled by borrowing to buy a home in Swiss francs.